http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room Welcome to the Adept Scientific Press Room Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:31:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/05/29/maple-16/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/05/29/maple-16/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 10:58:22 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4761
My favourite change in statistics is perhaps a small one: handling of data matrices has been harmonised across the package [Maple]. As icing on that particular cake, rule-based subsetting by variable (that is, matrix column) value is now a real joy to use. Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/05/29/maple-16/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2011/07/05/maple-15-2/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2011/07/05/maple-15-2/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:00:57 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4506
Having gone all out, over several releases, to develop a graphically ‘pencil and paper’ face for its CAS, Maple now has a polished smart worksheet interface which no longer changes in obvious ways between versions. Developments are now made behind the scenes, allowing an existing user to pick up the latest manifestation and use it [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2011/07/05/maple-15-2/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2011/03/17/endnote-x4-3/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2011/03/17/endnote-x4-3/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:25:38 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4296
EndNote was launched twenty-two years ago and has evolved over the years into the industry standard and the best product of its kind around.    Ripperologist page 113    ]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2011/03/17/endnote-x4-3/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/08/31/endnote-x4-2/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/08/31/endnote-x4-2/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:09:51 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3946
With the recently released 14th version, EndNote continues its highly successful trick of evolving as an information manager without compromising its core rôle as a bibliographic reference handler. There is new material in several areas, major additions have been made from a functional viewpoint, and a signpost erected to future expansion potential.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/08/31/endnote-x4-2/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/06/16/maple-14-and-maplesim-4/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/06/16/maple-14-and-maplesim-4/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:37:27 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3950
Upgrades to Maplesoft’s flagship computer algebra package Maple and high profile simulation sibling MapleSim have now firmly established an annual pattern of linked release, with versions 14 and 4 respectively having recently appeared. Since MapleSim draws its power from Maple, it therefore makes sense to make a shift from past practice and review them together.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/06/16/maple-14-and-maplesim-4/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/04/12/mathtype-6-6/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/04/12/mathtype-6-6/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:37:49 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3698
Since we last reviewed it, two and a half years ago, the world’s most widely used graphical equation editor [Mathtype 6.6] has seen several updates and incremental service releases. From the full digit version 6 at that time, we are now (as I write this) at the recently released 6.6a.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/04/12/mathtype-6-6/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/03/10/program-an-analogue-computer/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/03/10/program-an-analogue-computer/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:32:13 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3695
Digital? Pah. Find out how to use simulators of classic analogue computers to solve differential equations with 1960s style.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2010/03/10/program-an-analogue-computer/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/07/15/maple-professional-13/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/07/15/maple-professional-13/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:26:46 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3420
Maple has good tools for data mining and modelling, and is also strong on simulations, with a collection of built-in algorithms that can be used for analysis and visualisation.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/07/15/maple-professional-13/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/24/endnote-x3/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/24/endnote-x3/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:24:17 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3271
EndNote goes from strength to strength, its development over recent releases consistent, restrained, and impressive. In this release, attention has once again focussed on increasing sophistication of the information management aspects concentrated in the left hand pane. In my own mind I categorise the changes in this release as organisational, operational and ideological. Since it’s [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/24/endnote-x3/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/04/maplesim-3/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/04/maplesim-3/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:52:08 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3242
Computer algebra systems are widely applied to the modelling of engineering (and many other) systems. In fact, most of the Maple worksheets which come my way are real-world models of one kind or another. A realistic physical model, however, takes a lot of work and a lot of attention to detail: every component needs to [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/04/maplesim-3/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/01/maple-13/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/01/maple-13/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:43:46 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=3232
Things are moving fast at MapleSoft, these days. Since review of release 11, two years ago, there have been two major upgrades to Maple accompanied by versions 1 and 2 of the new MapleSim (of which more separately, although Maple power underpins them).]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/06/01/maple-13/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/02/17/knovel-technical-reference-information-service/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/02/17/knovel-technical-reference-information-service/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:48:26 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2988
Knovel‘s technical reference information service, available since September through Adept Scientific, is an online catalogued library system aimed at engineers and applied scientists.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/02/17/knovel-technical-reference-information-service/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/01/08/flexpro-8-professional/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/01/08/flexpro-8-professional/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:19:13 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2914
There are several ways in which a data analysis package can win the hearts of statisticians. One, of course, is to provide tools that aid the particular field in which the user is interested; another is to contain and manage information in a flexible database manner rather than forcing it into a spreadsheet. FlexPro has [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2009/01/08/flexpro-8-professional/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/12/01/updated-tool-helps-to-organise-references/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/12/01/updated-tool-helps-to-organise-references/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:33:43 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2635
Mhari Duncan believes that the new EndNote X2 from Thomson Reuters has many advantages over previous versions]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/12/01/updated-tool-helps-to-organise-references/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/09/10/endnote-x2/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/09/10/endnote-x2/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:06:25 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2303
With X2 (version 12), Endnote continues the process (followed, in previous reviews here, from release X) of carefully managed transition from bibliographic database manager to wider research information tool. In this release, search facilities that have been developing separately for quite a while are brought together under one convenient foreground interface. Where the preview pane [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/09/10/endnote-x2/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/05/21/maple-12/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/05/21/maple-12/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 14:37:21 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2318
This release of Maple continues the process, evident for several generations now, of developing intuitive usability as well as power. The ride has settled down somewhat, after the initial fireworks, but is no less impressive for that. The graphical document user interface continues to flower and enrich, blending productive tricks with home grown engineering. The [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/05/21/maple-12/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/03/26/micro-saint-sharp-26/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/03/26/micro-saint-sharp-26/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:10:30 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2328
SAINT goes back a long way, in modern computing terms. Developed more than a quarter century ago for USAF human factors study, it was FORTRAN based and ran on mainframes. Micro SAINT, designed to run on the IBM personal computers of the 1980s, marked a major step forward in flexibility and usability. Micro Saint Sharp [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2008/03/26/micro-saint-sharp-26/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/11/27/product-reviews/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/11/27/product-reviews/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:04 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2244
When a product is the most widely used in its market segment, and has developed every aspect of its original brief, where does it go next? The usual answer is that it should, in one of several ways, expand the brief: but exactly how that is done can be problematic. Software bloat, loss of focus [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/11/27/product-reviews/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/08/14/mathtype-6/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/08/14/mathtype-6/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:05:10 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2326
Design Science’s MathType has long been the de facto standard for graphical equation editors, its various incarnations having provided not only the free standing application, but also the basis for cut down and rebadged OLE modules in numerous other applications. It has always been possible to upgrade the bundled add-in supplied with products such as [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/08/14/mathtype-6/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/05/01/mathcad-14/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/05/01/mathcad-14/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 15:04:14 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=2324
I know of no other mathematical software that more closely approaches the feel of working on a blackboard, or the back of an envelope, than Mathcad. Maths for a wide range of applied purposes can be ‘scribbled’ down, played with, manipulated, until the desired results are reached, tidied up, arranged with documentation of process written [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2007/05/01/mathcad-14/feed/ 0